We are steadily working our way through the entire book of Galatians. In the third chapter, Paul finally turns his attention to a pressing question, one that has been hanging in the air this whole time. Why then did the law exist at all? Paul’s answer to this, in its simplest form, is that it is our instructor or teacher. But what does it teach us? Again, simply put, Paul uses the metaphor of slavery and freedom at this point, and he says that the law teaches us that we are—whether we realize it or not—enslaved. But the good news of the gospel is that we are no longer slaves but free. Through our purchase on Calvary, we have been set free from the law of sin and death! Amen!